Africa poised to expand at faster rate than China amid res ist ance to shocks IMF expects con tin ent’s GDP growth to out pace rival as reforms and eco nomic diversity bring gains Financial Times Europe 22 Oct 2026 DAVID PILLING — LONDON Much of that optim ism foundered on over bor row ing, poor gov ernance and con sump tion, tip ping the con tin ent’s biggest eco nom ies, includ ing Nigeria and South Africa, into stag na tion. Today, however, a quieter — many would say more real istic — nar rat ive has taken shape, one of a con tin ent res ist ant to shocks that is grow ing stead ily. At its annual meet ing in Bangkok this month, the IMF said Africa would expand at 4.6 per cent — 0.1 per cent age points above China. It would be the first time African growth had out paced China in dec ades, as the Chinese pop u la tion ages and its export-led model hits its lim its. In Africa by con trast, where the median age is 19 and the pop u la tion will con tinue to grow for dec ades ...
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AI and inflation: should central bankers worry? Financial Times Europe 22 Oct 2026 Sou maya Keynes sou maya.keynes@ft.com I resent pay ing more for annoy ing soft ware fea tures. I don’t want an AI-gen er ated sum mary of a long doc u ment, espe cially if that doc u ment is a book I spent con sid er able effort writ ing. Work ing out how to switch off AI assist ants takes minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Pity the poli cy makers gripped by fear of a sim ilar, eco nomywide phe nomenon: could AI cause infla tion without deliv er ing pro ductiv ity bene fits? For now at least, AI doesn’t seem to be the primary driver of over all infla tion dynam ics. Fig ures from Cap ital Eco nom ics put the annual rate in August across major developed mar kets at around 3 per cent, uncom fort ably high. But of that, energy prices con trib uted almost one per cent age point. That may be partly because of the energy needed to power Chat GPT requests for “easy cup cakes bana nas yogh...
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